hap posted this in another thread:
hap wrote:
I take it you don't like those 2 emulators being mentioned everywhere as being the best of the best. That brings me to an interesting question, and not just to you, but to anyone on this forum.
What do you think of your grown/diminished/non-fame or attention inside the small world of NES? Does it motivate or demotivate you? Or perhaps even make you feel jealous or wanting to belittle other projects?
I'll start off. For me it's probably non-fame; I'm pretty sure a few friends of mine and I are the only regular users of my project (NES emulator). Every time I release a new version, it's nice to see the news spreading through the internet without me announcing it to anyone. But, seeing it mentioned by emulator news site authors as 'just another basic NES emu', and most of the comments by potentional end-users being the likes of 'it's no Sega emulator then?' demotivates me a bit. I acknowledge and look up to people who are better at their projects than I am, the thought that it's close to impossible to be the best at something with 6 billion other people in this world kind of satisfies me; I actually wouldn't want to be the best... though I'm probably the best Finnish-Dutch-mixbreed NES emulator author in the world
What do you think of your grown/diminished/non-fame or attention inside the small world of NES? Does it motivate or demotivate you? Or perhaps even make you feel jealous or wanting to belittle other projects?
I'll start off. For me it's probably non-fame; I'm pretty sure a few friends of mine and I are the only regular users of my project (NES emulator). Every time I release a new version, it's nice to see the news spreading through the internet without me announcing it to anyone. But, seeing it mentioned by emulator news site authors as 'just another basic NES emu', and most of the comments by potentional end-users being the likes of 'it's no Sega emulator then?' demotivates me a bit. I acknowledge and look up to people who are better at their projects than I am, the thought that it's close to impossible to be the best at something with 6 billion other people in this world kind of satisfies me; I actually wouldn't want to be the best... though I'm probably the best Finnish-Dutch-mixbreed NES emulator author in the world